
It has now become an old joke in the Internet community about the guy from Nigeria who is offering huge money to unsuspecting Internet users. In Lagos and other cities in Nigeria they call this 419 and they don't mean an area code in Ohio. This is the section in their law referring to this type of scam.
The saddest part is that there are still some people who open this email, believe it and send their bank account numbers to these thieves hoping against hope that money will come to them because they are a nice person who can be trusted....